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Naturopathic Treatment of Colds and Infectious Diseases

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What this book is about
Principle #1: Activating the "inner physician" instead of simply administering medication
Principle #2: Cleaning up the internal environment instead ofmerely destroying microbes
Principle #3: Metabolic relief instead of metabolic stress

How nature heals: Therapeutic fasting, Enemas, Dr. FX Mayr's saline intestinal irrigation, Graduated half-bath with firction, Sweat packs, Father Kneipp's bath series, The Extraction bath, Kuhne's friction sitz bath, Cold compresses, Inhalations, Other naturopathic methods, Proven biological remedies

General treatment guidelines
I. Beginning therapy
Basic treatment outline
II Treatment of common acute infectious diseases
Preliminary stages of illness, Acute fever of unknown origin, Head cold, Influenza, Head flu, meningeal irritation, Acute infectious gastro-intestinal diseases ("stomach flu"), Inflammation of the throat, pharynx, or tonsils (tonsilitis), Acute inflammation of the bronchial tubes (bronchitis), Pneumonia, Rubella (German measles), measles, scarlet fever, Diptheria, Acute middle ear infection (otitis media)

Prevention: Healthful nutrition, A healthy lifestyle

 
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